John Steinbeck-Bio, Career, Nobel Prize, and Pulitzer Prize

     John Steinbeck was born in Salinas, California in 1902 and went to school at Salinas High School, where he graduated. He then went to college at Stanford University, but left for New York in 1925 and went to pursue his dreams of being a writer. In New York, he tried writing as a "free-lance" writer, but he wasn't successful. He then went back to California and published several novels and short stories. He first became known for writing Tortilla Flat in 1953. Afterwards, he started writing about serious things, like migrating farmers and serious social problems, which is when he wrote Of Mice and Men along with In Dubious Battle. In 1968, in New York, he died at 66 years old.
     In 1962, John Steinbeck won the Nobel Prize in Literature, quote, "for his realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception", unquote.
     In 1939 he won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel The Grapes of Wrath.

     The Pulitzer Prize is awarded for achievements in the newspaper, journals, literature, and music writing, while the Nobel Prize is an international award given annually to someone who helps in cultural and scientific advances.